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Metallurgical Applications of Electron Probe Microanalysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

David B. Wittry*
Affiliation:
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California
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*Present address: University of Southern California, University Park, Los Angeles, California.
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Abstract

The electron probe microanalyzer has found numerous applications in physical metallurgy. Some recent problems which have been studied with the microanalyzer constructed by the author at the California Institute of Technology include (1) determination of the penetration of chromium in chromized iron, (2) determinations of the concentration of nickel in taenite bands occurring in a fragment of meteorite from Canyon Diablo, (3) identification of intermediate phases in the as-cast structure of an alloy of titanium and copper, (4) identification of phases in the titanium—silver binary system, (5) determination of concentration fluctuations in a gold—copper alloy resulting from slow solidification, and (6) determination of the diffusion profile of nickel in single crystal sapphire.

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Copyright © International Centre for Diffraction Data 1959

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